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Eric Scheske

No Back-Alley Abortions

Interesting piece at NYT this morning [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/weekinreview/02leland.html] about a new pill that would make back-alley abortions highly unlikely, if Roe were to be reversed and states started outlawing abortions again. This is good information to have when a pro-choicer

Something for Sundy Morning

Quotes from Simone Weil: > All sins are attempts to fill voids. > Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. > Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the

Some Might Call This a Feel-Good Story

> One man was shot to death and another wounded after they allegedly attempted a carjacking against two FBI agents who were conducting surveillance, officials said. > The FBI agents apparently were targeted randomly and the incident remains under investigation. Link [http://cbs5.com/californiawire/CA--FBI-Carjacking-kn/resources_

Dad on the Run

My weekends now that I have four children in sports, some day this will be me: Sung to the tune of Band on the Run: Well, the van ignited with my copper key As I drove into the sun, And my first son said to my second son there I

A Stance Against Material Excess?

> "School administrators, reacting to what they called a "sick" prom culture that was out of control, announced in a letter this month to parents that senior prom was canceled. > "Basically, it has become an event in American culture that has all the trappings of

Gollum at the Convenience Store

Photoshopping creatures from Middle Earth into everyday pictures [http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=7485&display=photoshop#entries] . Humorous stuff, at least for us Tolkien nerds.

Yeah, Baby

Austin Powers, Cat in the Hat, and now Keith Moon: > Mike Myers will star as The Who's drummer Keith Moon in an untitled feature being developed by Spitfire Pictures, says Variety. Roger Daltrey is producing with Spitfire's Nigel Sinclair. Bill Gerber also is producing. >

Dissecting Media

This link [http://www.zombietime.com/sf_rally_september_24_2005/anatomy_of_a_photograph/] has a very interesting (borderline fascinating) example of media bias. It starts with a simple picture in the San Fransisco Chronicle and then, in five short blurbs, shows that the Chronicle took a picture out

Zombie Me

> American television viewing climbed again last season to a record household average of eight hours, 11 minutes a day, Nielsen Media Research has found. > The latest finding challenges perceptions that Americans are watching less TV. . . . > [T]he average individual watched four hours and 32 minutes of television

200 Hours for Teenage Baby Slugger

> A teenage boy convicted of striking his girlfriend with a baseball bat to end her pregnancy has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service at a pro-life pregnancy center, drawing objections from his lawyer and his family. Link [http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0509/30/B01-